This butch rep means everything to me actually I love her I’m obsessed with her she makes my transmasc butch little heart sing. Every day I regret knowing I will never be half as cool as mary fucking read. Please clap for william mary read
anyways YAY escaped outlast trials reagent oc julie !! i tried a different outfit for her this time because im still kind of wishy washy about the last one ..
Do y'all want to see the cover of my upcoming book? Well I want to show it to you because I'm completely in love with it.
ISN'T SHE GORGEOUS? I got to hold the print proof in my own two hands for the first time this week and I almost cried about it. Art and design by the fantastically talented @isthiseva.
The book is coming out March 3, and preorders are open now! You can find it in various online shops here: https://books2read.com/citizenofeastport
I'll also be doing a couple giveaways and will have ARCs up shortly... I won't post about all those here, so if you want to hear about them, keep an eye on vbruth.com or subscribe to the newsletter (same link).
Putting the book description below the cut for those that want to read more:
Schemes, secrets, and queer desire collide in this story of intrigue, perfect for fans of LEVERAGE, LADY EVE'S LAST CON, and NO BODY, NO CRIME
Vi runs a bar, and that's all she does. Once she dreamed of fighting for justice alongside her first love, but tragedy taught her that some fights cost more than she's willing to pay. Amid the warring gangs and power-hungry tycoons that run the city of Eastport, she can count herself lucky if she manages to keep her family safe and her employees fed.
But luck has a way of turning, especially if someone with strings to pull wants something you have. Vi doesn't know who is targeting her livelihood or why, but if she can't find out soon, she'll end up like most honest citizens: indentured for life to one of the bigger powers, or dead.
Kilo is not an honest citizen, but being one of the city's finest thieves comes with its own problems. Ze's stolen something that's dangerous to have and dangerous to lose, and now ze has to turn zer skills to disposal instead of acquisition. Ze knows it's a bad idea to mix business with pleasure, but zer best chance might just lie with zer latest conquest, the secretive and captivating newcomer from offworld.
Tempe is an exile, returning to Earth after many years with a forged background and a secret agenda. Her plans have been carefully made and all the pieces set in place. But when her Eastport contact disappears, the trail leads her to the last place she expects: the bar run by the childhood sweetheart who once betrayed her.
I played a trans masc character in Zweihander back in 2021, and it was so affirming. I gave my next (more feminine) character a butch older sister in Call of Cthulhu. I played an edgy butch necromancer with a talking sword for a bit.
Then I found out about Thirsty Sword Lesbians, and I fell in love! my most recent character was a scrappy butch just trying to prove herself as a champion of the queendom. It's fun to play at the fantasy chivalry and have larger than life butch characters - I'm a pretty quiet and low key butch irl lol
I once said this on Twitter and got a LOT of backlash for it, but I think it's worth saying. Piper McLean is not hyper-femme. She's not even femme. Piper McLean is a butch sapphic woman. Though there's no problem with portraying her in pink or doing "girly" things every once in a while, if everyone is doing it all of the time, it creates a fandom misinterpretation of the character. It erases her identity as butch. Yes, she improved her internalized misogyny. No, that does not mean that she has become femme or "feminine." Part of feminism and eliminating internalized misogyny is the realization that women have the choice of how they want to present. Piper presents in a more androgynous/masc way. That's how she is, and I don't think all fanart of her should misrepresent her in such a way.
